When starting out I struggled with the shakehand forehand grip. In particular the wrist angle necessary to keep the racket in line with the forearm felt unnatural. Two things that addressed this problem were Tenaly blades and the penhold grip. I never tried the former but I played around with a penhold forehand and found it easier and more natural than shakehand. But RPB was much harder and I had nobody to show me how to do it so that was that. Later I discovered the fun of penhold serves. I'd use them in matches if only I could figure out how to shift fast enough from penhold to shakehand.

I play both Cpen and Jpen and I use traditional pebhold backhand and often attack with my backhand. I have always been Cpen and don't feel the need or inclination to shift. Love the serves and the blocking in front.

I am Chinese and started learning TT in USA. I intended to learn penhold but mistakenly bought a shakehand blade. It keeps scrubbing my fingers and gave it up soon. I feel shakehand is more natural for me.

I am Chinese and started learning TT in USA. I intended to learn penhold but mistakenly bought a shakehand blade. It keeps scrubbing my fingers and gave it up soon. I feel shakehand is more natural for me.

I am Chinese and started learning TT in USA. I intended to learn penhold but mistakenly bought a shakehand blade. It keeps scrubbing my fingers and gave it up soon. I feel shakehand is more natural for me.

I've come to the conclusion that handle type and length matters less for Penhold than we think (unless of course you have short arms and the handle is hitting your head at the peak of your stroke). finger to blade interface is more important which you can gain further access to by sanding.

I'd even argue long handle is more balanced, allowing you to do those chikita flicks easier.

I just can't find evidence that head heavy = more spin. At the end of the day, the mass of the entire setup matters more. Head heavy forces your wrist and shoulder to work harder giving you the illusion that you're producing more spin

yeah that's it. On the intermediate level, that really can mess players up as it carries a lot of side.

Should be done sparingly to keep the surprise factor. Really easy to execute vs backspin. IMO harder vs topspin. But if you read some type of topspin in a serve, better off just hitting on top of the ball with a normal flick.

Can be done where you return side/back or side/top. You either just come more under and through the ball for side/back. Or you kinda scoop the ball lifting it up (think corkscrew type of spin) for side/top.

Shank hand can also do that, but from BH. Haven't seen any SH players do that from FH side.

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Watch some Ito Mima's videos as well as Hirano Miu's.

What I really meant was to do it using the FH side of your racket just like what Xu Xin does in the video. Using BH of the racket to do it is easy. I sometimes also do it during training with my coach, just for fun.

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